On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:49:02AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > The thing is I need a working php3 to continue my work but current apache and
> > php3 packages are incompatible. I tried to recompile php3 with new apache
> > but just couldn't. Build depends on some things in /usr/local/ and requires
> > MANY unspecified (we desperately need source dependencies) packages to be
> > installed. I finally just gave up.
>
> This is the second time this has happened with php3. You should probably
> file a bug report and ask that php3 depend on exactly one apache version.
> I've built the php3 packages before, but they're monsters, and I don't
> want to try to figure out the new ones. Many wasted hours... :-)
Maybe now would be a good time to hype mod_dtcl (libapache-mod-dtcl).
It works with 1.3.1 last time I checked.
Basically, my design goals in writing it were similiar to those of
PHP, but to use an existing language. I chose Tcl because of the ease
with which it is integrated with C, and its relative simplicity for
new users. Mod_dtcl, like PHP, can be tightly integrated with HTML (
if ... (some html) ... else ... (more html) ...
and other neat things like that... It is also, IMO, relatively easy
to learn, as it is based on a language for which many books have been
written, and for which many modules exist.
Unlike mod_perl, mod_dtcl does not attempt to sink its scripty claws
deep within the server;-) Mod_perl really gives you the ability to do
all kinds of things to the server with Perl. While that is all well
and good, most people just want to do a bit of dynamic content, and
mod_perl is probably not as suitable for this...
Mod_dtcl is alpha software, and thus may change, but I'm really hoping
to get some developer type people to pound and hack on it...:-)
Thanks,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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